Lowell S. Terrell Notebooks
Collection
Identifier: MS102
Lowell S. Terrell graduated from Georgia Tech in 1915 with a B. S. in Electrical Engineering. The thirty-two lab notebooks that comprise this collection are from two of his classes.
(one document case).
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Lowell Terrell kept these notebooks, numbering thirty-two, on a weekly basis. All were removed from a binder. The range of dates for the first set of notebooks, taken in an electrical engineering laboratory, fall between February 10, 1914 and April 1, 1915. Terrell recorded the second set of notebooks from a mechanical engineering laboratory that he took during his senior year, from November 7, 1914 until May 29, 1915.
Born December 18, 1890 in College Park, Georgia, Lowell S. Terrell lived in nearby Clayton County for most of his adult life. He graduated with a B. S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1915. Terrell worked at Western Union for 44 years before becoming a county tax assessor for ten years. With his wife, Eleanor Pace, they had two sons and two daughters. Lowell Terrell died in 1988.
The notebooks are arranged by the course for which they were kept, and chronologically within class designation.
A print copy of this finding aid is available in the Georgia Tech Archives reading room.
Accession #1993.0201 (old number: 93-02-01).
(one document case).
Yen M. Tang processed these papers in 2000.
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology Repository